Nobody contacted us?

[steelingmyself]

Hi,

My child, age 7, was dropped off at a club tonight by his father. He has attended this club before but has recently moved from going on a Wednesday to going on a Thursday. This is not the first time he has attended on a a Thursday however.

When his father picked him up, another parent who was also doing a pick up, was comforting my child who was visibly upset (crying.). Apparently all of the other students were due to be graded at this session and my child "shouldn't have been there" tonight. (His words.)

My child said he'd been left to sit at the side for the hour long session, very upset because he'd been told he shouldn't be there. Nobody had contacted me ", or his father, to have him picked up.

I had no communication at all about the grading in advance of the session.

His dad didn't ask any questions at the time but phoned me to check if I'd known he "shouldn't be there".

I've messaged the group leader to ask why I wasn't contacted but haven't had a response.

AIBU to be annoyed?! WWYD?

I think you've done what you can for now. It's pretty poor.

That’s a bit shit, hopefully it won’t put him off going back. Just wait and see what response you get back and take it from there.

That's poor. Wait to see what they say.

Well it's not acceptable that he was left crying and nobody called you but it's not surprising you haven't had a response yet. I'd expect at least a holding reply to say it's being looked into by mid afternoon tomorrow but it does depend on the teaching schedule / other job they have to do since it's not an immediate safeguarding concern. If the teacher has any kind of work / life balance, once all kids have left she will turn off the work phone and not check emails etc until the morning.

I suppose I am annoyed that

• nobody contacted me beforehand to explain the grading was happening

• nobody contacted me to collect him

-nobody spoke to his father or messaged at the end to explain what had happened!

I work with children the same age in a club in a completely unrelated discipline and there's absolutely no way we'd have had a child sit out upset the whole time without attempting to get a hold of a parent or guardian. In the event we couldn't contact them we would at the very least have spoke to the parent or guardian at the end of the session!